Jar and other receptacle



A. AND H. INGRAM.

JAR AND OTHER RECEPTACLE.

I I APPLICATION HFED MAY 29, 1920. 1,375,004, Patented Apr. 19, 1921.

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Application filed May 29,

T 0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known thatwe, ALFREDVINVGRAM and.

HARRY INGRAM, citizens of the United States, and residents of 'Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and .useful Tmprovements in Jars and other Receptacles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention pertains more particularly to jars and other receptacles made of glass. earthenware or like material'of a fragile nature, and it resides in a novel construction adapting the jar to receive a cover and suitable means whereby the cover may be socured on the jar.. Glass and earthenware jars have been variously constructed to reeeive bailsand cover-locking means, but the fragile nature of the material of the jar has rendered it difficult to provide thereonsuitable means for adequately receiving the bails and cover-locking features. In accordance with our inventionwe form the jar at opposite sides of its upper or neck portion with integral outwardly projecting lugs of special construction and apply thereon inetallic caps, also of special construction, af-

fording bearings for the lever element or bail of the cover-locking features, and at the same time dispensewith one of the wires quite commonly found on j ars' to cooperate with the locking wire bails. The integral lugs we form on the opposite sides of the neck portion of the jar will preferably be circular when viewed in face elevation and have inwardly converging walls, and the caps we apply upon said lugs will preferably be of strong tin and have a domed outer portion to afford the aforesaid bearings and inwardly converging skirt portions to be sprung upon the aforesaid lugs and so firmly grip the same as to avoid any necessity for any additional securing means for said caps. The caps may be readily applied to" the lugs, and should the occasion arise said caps may be'removed from the lugs without injury to the jar. V 7 Our invention presents several novel features of construction and advantage, and

the same will be fully understood from the Specification of Letters Patent.

1920. Serial No. 385,131.

same, taken on the dotted line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of the jar minus the cover and being partly in "section, the section being on the dotted line 3-3 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4; is a corresponding view of the same, with the cap and wire securing means omitted and the lug onthe side of the jar exposed in face elevation.

In the drawings, 10 designates a jar, 11 the contents thereof, 12 an applied cover, 13 a gasket to receive the downwardly extended edge portions of the cover, 14 a wire locking-bail engaging saidcover for securing the same in position, and 15 a semi-circular lever-bail or wire for binding the bail 14 in firm position across the top of the cover 12. The jar 10 has around its upper portion a reduced circumferential flange 16 and exterior thereto a circumferential or annular horizontal shoulder 17 affording a seat for the gasket 13. The jar 10, except for the features entering into our invention,

may be of any suitable or usual form and construction. 7

On opposite sides of the'contracted neck 19 of the jar and formed integrally therewith are outwardly projecting lugs 20 which are preferably of circular outline, viewed in face elevation, and have undercut or converging annular side walls 21, as may be readily understood on reference to Figs. 2 and 4. The lugs 20 are short and of substantial diameter and possess strength and capability of resisting strains, and said lugs when of the construction shown permit of the use of the cover-locking features in an efiicient manner without danger of injury either to the jar or said lugs, all this being Patented Apr. 19, rear.

of material advanta e when the 'ar is of rounding the mouth of the jar, and hence said lugs are protected against injury due to the rough handling of the jars after their manufacture and before the application of the cover-locking features thereto, which features, when in position, serve .to guard said lugs against fracture.

Upon the lugs20 we apply caps cial construction, and these caps are of strong sheet metal and circular 1n front elevation 23, of spe which are apertured, as at 26, at their apices and set outwardly from the faces of the lugs 20, whereby there are formed circular chambers, as shown in Fig. 2, between the central portions of the caps 23 and the faces of the lugs 20. The face portions of the caps 23, outwardly beyond the dome-sections 25, engage annular face portions of the lugs 20, as shown, and the flange or skirtportions 24 of the caps closely conform to and interlock with binding effect on the" converging side walls of the lugs 20, whereby said caps become firmly secured on said lugs and resist any usual tendency to become loose thereon or separated therefrom. The flanges 24 may have limited spring action and are sprung over the outer edges of the lugs 20 and then contract against the side walls of said lugs. The flanges 24 are crimped, as at 27, in a manner well understood, and the caps will be of sufficient thickness Or strength to maintain their position on the lugs 20 against any tendency of the cover-locking features or accidental causes to detach them therefrom. The caps 23 will preferably, however, be capable of removal from the lugs 20 should an occasion for de taching them arise, by a leverage pressure applied outwardly against one edge of the cap, and thereafter the caps may be restored to position, as before.

The locking bail 14 is of wire, as usual, and at its upper middle portion is adapted to a recess 28 of usual character in the top of the cover 12, and the sides of said bail 14 extend downwardly at opposite sides of the jar and at their lower ends are bent in-' wardly, as at 29, and confined in eyes 30 formed in the end portions of the lockingwire or bail 15. The locking wir or bail 15 is substantially semi-circular and extends around about one-half of the neck of the jar and at its end portions is formed with the eyes 30 and upwardly extending members 31, whose upper ends are bent inwardly, as at 32, to enter the openings 26 in the caps 23, as shown in Fig. 2, and serve as trunnions for said bail 15. When the locking elements 14, 15 are in their operative position, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower ends of the bail 14 are carried beyond the center line of the trunnions 32 and said bail 14 then serves to lock the cover 12 in position. When it is desired to remove the cover 12, the middle portion of the bail 15 is turned to carry the lower side portions of the bail 14 to the opposite side of the center line of the trunnions 32 of said bail 15, thereby releasing the strain on the bail 14 and permitting said bail to be turned from over the cover 12. The trunnions 32 have a bearing on the edges of the openings 26in the caps 23 and the inner ends of said trunnions have free done for rotary movements within the chamcaps 23. The caps 23 may first be applied on the trunnions 32 and then on the lugs 20 if desired, or the caps may first be applied on the lugs 20 and thereafter receive the trunnions 32.

The integral lugs 20 have no parts to be chipped oif in the manipulation of the wire operating elements for the cover, and these lugs plus the caps 23 of the character de-.

scribed afford adequate means for receiving and for the manipulation of the locking bails 14, 15 whose strains, during manipulation and use, are borne partly by the caps 23 and partly, by the lugs 20. The lugs 20 of the character described,'c'o6perating with the flanges on the caps, prevent either upward or downward or lateral movement of the caps during the manipulation of the locking features 14, 15 or the loss of said caps and locking features from the jar at any time.

The invention permits us to produce a very durable glass jar of the character requiring the locking elements 14, 15, and to avoid a third wire which is frequently employed on jars of this class connecting the ends of the lever member 15 of the looking features. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an adequate construction of glass or earthen jar or receptacle adapted to adequately receive and care for the locking'wires whereby the cover may be secured on the jar. It will be readily seen that in accordance with the construction presented by us, there is no strain on the lugs 20, except that'applied against nearly one half of their lower curved or arc peripheral portions, adequate strain resisting surfaces being thus provided and danger of injury to the lugs eliminated.

W e do not limitthe invention to all the details of form and construction shown and described as illustrative of our invention, further than the appended claims may require. We have described the lugs 20 and caps 23 as being circular, but do not desire to be limited to lugs and caps which are in a strictly technical senseoabsolutely circular, since said parts will perform their duties if of circular design or presenting, arc edges, especially in their lower half portions, as would an oval or other form de parting from the outline of a true circle.

What we claim as our invention and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. A jar or other receptacle having on opposite sides of its neck-portion outwardly projecting lugs whose peripheral walls converge inwardly and present undercut surfaces, combined with sheet metal caps conforming to the shape of said lugs and having peripheral flanges which are crimped and converge inwardly and sprung upon and interlocked with sald lugs, said caps having in their faces bearing openings to projecting lugs of circular design whose edge walls converge inwardly and present undercut surfaces, combined with metallic 7 caps conforming to the outline of said lugs and having skirt or flange portions extending along the periphery thereof and which are crimped and converge inwardly and are sprung upon and engage the undercut surfaces of said lugs, said caps also having bearings to receive the ends of a wire bail. Signed at New York city, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this 27th day of May, A. D. 1920.

ALFRED INGRAM. HARRY INGRAM. 

